The federal government wants pregnant women to consider stop traveling to Brownsville, Texas, due to five locally acquired cases of the Zika virus.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said that Brownsville, near the border with Mexico, was considered a cautionary area. Health officials have found five cases of Zika, which is spread primarily via mosquito bites and is linked to birth defects.
“There is not yet any evidence of widespread, sustained local spread of Zika,” the CDC said. “Still, temperatures in the region are conducive to mosquito-borne spread, and the risk of continued local spread cannot be ruled out.”
Texas is the second state to have locally acquired Zika cases, with Florida being the first state. A majority of the more than 250 cases in Florida were located in Miami-Dade County, but health officials have said that Zika is no longer spreading there.
